Isaiah 47 - The Fall of Babylon

 

Isaiah 47 – The Fall of Babylon

 

Babylon started out as a small and insignificant nation. It was almost a century before Babylon became a world power. It was the motherhood of all idolatry. Idolatry will bring a nation down. When Babylon fell it was subjected to indescribable humiliation. She had mistreated the people of Israel and was brought low.

In those days Babylon had a real hang-up with nudity. It is no wonder God clothes His people because it became a form of degradation. God tells the people that the reason Babylon was able to take His people was because He permitted it, not because Babylon was superior. They had a great sense of power, and they gave their self-credit for overthrowing Israel. They were wrong. God had given the Israelites over to the Babylonians because Israel had sinned. He was judging His own people.

Babylon was arrogant, lifted, and careless. King Nebuchadnezzar looked over the city and boasted how he had built it. He gave God no credit. God gave the king a form of amnesia and sent him out to the fields to eat grass. For a long time, he did not know who he was. This was God’s judgment against him.

There is always a grave danger of a nation, or a man being lifted up in pride and believing he can make it on his own. We are living in a nation where men can become rich with questionable businesses. The sale of liquor can bring great wealth. Pornography is a form of entertainment and gambling brings great wealth to our nation. These are not honorable professions and God will judge this nation for it.

When we worship our great wealth as Babylon did, He taunts us to turn to that which we worship and see if it will bring us out of trouble.

Babylon means confusion. When that great nation began to die within its economic system, it confused them. We too, as a nation depend on our economic strength. What happened to them can happen to us.

We live in a very immoral world and have departed from the one and only true living God. We must turn our prayers toward our nation and seek a great revival. That is the only thing that will bring this nation back to God. Back to our first Love.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.